Hillsboro recorder., 1887-11-10
SOUTHERN FARMER.
PLEASANT ITEMS TO READ C0OL
EVENINGS BIZ THE FIRESIDE.
Great Value In Pine Forests-Rice Geing Up.
and Cotton Holding Its Own-Cotton
Tax 60 BE Refunded.

Great Value In Pine Forests-Rice Going Up.
and Cotton Holding Its Own-Cotton
Tax 10 BE Refunded.
FINE LANDS ADVANCING.
Six years ago, d. G. Bacon, Of Sayan-
nah, Ga, proposed scheme for buying
mp the pine forests of South Georgia.
About $60O,000 would have been re-
| qnired. At least 1000, 900 could now
be realized on that investment had it
been made. There is money to be made
Ia buying Georgia pine lands or holding
them at present figures. The pine belt is
rapidly diminishing, and the reputation
and uses of pine are multiplying. Indeed,
| all southern forests are valuable. Pros
pectors are buying them up in vast tracts
at low prices. So of mineral tracts. We
should not sell our patrimony for q song.
| The South is new field and the coming
field, and it will pay to watch and wait.
CROP RECORD.
The annual report Of the Commissioner
of Agriculture OF South Carolina, csti-
mates the aggregate value Of the princi-
pal crops produced in the state the pres
ent year at $469, $3.50, 900, which excels
the value Of agricultural productions as
returned at the tenth census by about S.
! 900, 900, and that OF last year by about
| $4,000, 900. The yield Of cotton is esti.
mated at 605, ia bales, an increase over
| last years crop Of 75,114 bales. The
Weld of corn is II. 400, 900 bushels, an
increase of 9, ,565, 522 bushels. Rice, 67,-
7s2, 800 pounds, decrease Of 1,s43, 002
pounds. Wheat, 1,121, 442 bushels, n
decrease of 80, ,655 bushels. Oats, 4,001.-
075 bushels, an increase of 300, 31s bush.
els. Peas. 795, $40 bushels, an increase
of f3. .424 bushels. The value Of farm
supplies purchased during the year is es-
timated at the same as last years., ,000,-
900. ....s....s..
RICE GOING UP. -.~.-~
Owing to the unfavorable spring and
the July floods the rice crop in the sa-
vannah territory, Georgia, is short fully
| 40 per cent. The receipts at the Savan.
nah mills last year were 6sG, 900 bushels.
This year they will not be over 436, 900
bushels, and may possibly run $4,000
lower. For the whole country the short
age is $4,000 barrels, or 2,607,-
Oh0 bushels. The acreage of
rice planted this year was
about the same as last. But, owing to
| the deterioratiug causes in growth, har-
vesting and milling, there is marked
diminishment Of yield; and, in compari-
son with the previous crop, Louisiana
produces but about 81, per cent. Geor-
gia, n per cent. South Carolina, 81 per
cent. North Carolina, % per cent.
Messrs. Dan Talmage's Sons estimate the
total crop at $4,000 barrels, which,
combined with $4,000 barrels, stock on
hand September 1st, gave yisible supply
for present year Of 47s,00O barrels,
against 715.000 barrels in 1886. The
sales Of new crop thus far have been
$50, COO barrels, against 6s,00O barrels,
1886. This amount refers only TO the
outwardsmovement of the new crop, an
unless combined with the stock Of the
old crop at distributing centres, does not
show the actual distribution or nsump-
tion. The total TO date for each Of the
respective years Ia les, 900 barrels this
year, against $4,000 barrels last year.
Deducting these two amounts from the
total stock and crop, leaves a visible
supply, first hands, OF about 3l3, 900
barrels, against 575, 900 barrels in 1885,.
The partial failure Of the potato crop in
Europe has already caused marked en-
largement Of the demand for rice abroad:
and although the output Of the Indies
was per cent greater than last year, the
visible supply Is now nearly 30 per cent.
lsss. Three prominent factors determine
The course OF the domestic rice market
the amount produced; the cost Of i'm
porting foreign; the amount produced Of
other crops--sueh as potatoes, ETC., which
arc related in greater or less degree TO
the same channels Of consumption as rice.
The facts IN regard TO these show that the
crop is nearly 100000 barrels short OF
trade requirements cast Of the Rocky
Mountains; that the domestic In primary
markets Is below the cost Of competing
grades in foreign; that there Is q marked
shortage In crops which are, ordinarily,
competitors with rice. These several
reasons are thought 10 clearly indicate
that there will be high range Of values
throughout the season.
FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The County alliance OF the Farmers
alliance, Of Schley county, Ga, met at
Ellaville. Among the most important
business was steps taken for the organi-
zation Of state alliance, therefore, all
the county alliances Of the state are re-
quessed to elect delegates at once tomect
in Americas, on "Wednesday before the
third Sunday in November, next, for the
purpose Of organizing a FarmerS State
alliance.
THE COTTON TAX.
The Baltimore Manufactured Record,
In view Of the fact that the cotton tax
collected during and Immediately after
i the War has been declared illegal by the
United States Supreme Court, suggests
that the seventy five. millions IL collars
which we're collected from The farmers Of
the Southern states bc restored 10 the
South BY Congress 10 be used as a fund
for educational purposes. The money
belongs 70 the farmers OF the Southern